Remanded

I received a letter, dated July 7, 2008, yesterday, Friday July 11, 2008, from- and I believe that this is the right title/agency- US DOJ Office of Information and Privacy Associate Director Janice Galli McLeod regarding- Appeal No.08-1881; Request No. 1111513; KM MJS. Long and short of it is that she's remanding my request for FBI records related to me back to the FBI. My only question is, why. The FBI already denied having any and describe earlier appeals as moot. I didn't appeal the appeals or bring them to court. I'll scan and eventually post her letter along with the others.

Rainmakers

It's been raining all weekend and probably will continue through Sunday. The rain's appreciated, but I hope that they know what they're doing.

Natasha

I returned home late this afternoon to a message on the answering machine. A Natasha, a FOIA specialist with the Office of...., left a message for Joseph Keegan. Unfortunate- ly, the message was abruptly cut off omitting the name of Natasha's agency and return phone number. The answering machine was working properly, so it's possible that she called during this afternoon's thunderstorm and lightening may have hit either the electrical or phone line interrupting her call. At any rate, she didn't call back.

Spraying Vitamin C?

Walking the dogs along the drive just past the culvert headed east when I noticed that a large helicopter flying W-NW at just over 1,000 ft accompanied by 4 smaller planes was spraying something. Whatever it was it was clearly visible, whitish, and sprayed in the form of a puffy cloud rather than a stream. Earlier this morning while in Marianna, I observed one or two jets spraying chemtrails at about 30k ft, so we'll probably have rain with the next day or two. The helicopter pilot may have seen me, because when I waved to them the helicopter, followed by its entourage, veered sharply north to fly over the house. I suspect that whatever was discharged wasn't the typical chemtrail mix.

What would Mulder and Scully do?

I filed my first complaint with the FBI Jacksonville Field Office. When Jacksonville refused to reply to inquiries regarding the status of my complaint, I mailed a more detailed one to FBI Director Mueller and included a copy of a VHS tape. When FBI HQ didn’t respond, I filed 4 separate FBI FOIPA Requests. I filed the first 2 general requests at the same time seeking all records related to me: #1 with the Jacksonville FBI Field Office and #2 with DC FBI HQ. RIDS Section Chief Hardy timely replied to FBI HQ’s #2: "No records responsive to your FOIPA request were located by a search of the automated and manual indices. If you desire a search of the Field Office files, you must contact the appropriate Field Office." As noted, I already filed #1 with Jacksonville. When Jacksonville didn’t respond after an inordinate period, I phoned them and spoke to the FOIA manager. First time he said that that Jacksonville FBI would reply to my FOIA when they received FBI HQ’s authorization to release my records. Second time he changed his story and said that he doesn’t understand what’s going on, knows nothing, and that DC HQ would handle it. When FBI HQ didn’t respond after two months to #1, I filed an FOI Appeal. Shortly afterward Chief Hardy replied to #1 with the standard "no records" reply quoted above minus the referral to the local Field Office. So I then filed a more specific FOIPA request (#3) addressed to the Jacksonville Special Agent in Charge and later another specific request (#4) with FBI HQ regarding my charges and evidence that I sent to FBI Director Mueller. When neither office replied within the statutory period to #’s 3&4, I filed 2 separate additional FOI Appeals.

The DOJ Supervisory Administrative Specialist replied to my appeal regarding #3 was that the FBI denied receiving #3 and that they referred #3 to the FBI. The FBI lied: Jacksonville FBI personnel signed for #3 and a Duty Agent said that he found my request in the system. She also wrote that I could appeal any future adverse determination made by the FBI. When the FBI didn’t respond timely to #3, I again appealed the FBI’s failure to make an initial determination within the statutory period. I filed a similar appeal regarding FBI DC HQ’s failure to respond to #4. So I filed 4 FOIPA Requests and 4 FOI Appeals- all appeals treated agency’s failure to make an initial determination within statutory period as a denial.

I received another no records reply, dated March 25, 2008, from RIDS Chief Hardy. He referenced the FOIPA # that the FBI assigned my request, but not the date of my request, so I didn’t know if he was referring to my Jacksonville or DC requests. When the FBI FOIPA Public Information (PIO) failed to respond to my inquiries regarding what request- #’s 2, 3, or 4- Hardy’s March 25, 2008 no records letter addressed, I called the FBI Public Liason Officer (PLO) for an answer. The PLO never returned my call. Instead, an FBI employee who said that she’s not even a supervisor or the person that handles it but will answer my questions and remail Hardy’s March 25, 2008 letter. Eventually she indicated that Hardy’s no records letter referred to request #4.

Coincidentally, I received a letter, dated April 17, 2008, from Anne D. Work, Deputy Chief Administrative Appeals Staff, the same day that I received Hardy’s remailed March 25, 2007 letter. The text of Deputy Chief Work’s letter follows:
This responds to your letters dated February 11 and March 8, 2008, in which you attempted to appeal from the failure of the Headquarters Office and Jacksonville Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to respond to your requests for access to records pertaining to your correspondence with Director Robert S. Mueller III and "Jacksonville FBI documents."

The FBI responded to your requests by letters dated September 21, 2007, and November 7, 2007 (copies enclosed). Because the FBI responded to your requests, your appeals from the FBI's failure to respond are moot. Accordingly, I am closing your appeal files in this Office.

The Deputy Chief was perhaps too conscientious and premature in closing my case. Although the FBI lied in their no record responses to my ’07 FOIPA Requests, my Sept 21 and Nov 7 requests, which she based her decision, they don’t address my Jan. 5. 2008 FOIPA, requesting records pertaining to my Dec. 11, 2007 charges and evidence to FBI Director Mueller. I checked with DC FBI Logistics mail-room in civilian terms. The FBI logs and tracks mail via identifier numbers and carriers, which is only common sense and I suspect that they assign a DLN to the others. The mail-room easily tracked my EXPRESS MAIL letter to Dir. Mueller and the room/unit where it was eventually delivered. I filed two complaints with the DOJ OIG charging the FBI with lying to cover-up and abuse of the Patriot Act, which may have prompted a reply to my charges and evidence that I sent to Dir. Mueller. I received a letter, dated April 29, 2008, from a Carlton L. Peeples, Chief, Civil Rights Unit, CID and postmarked May 5, 2008. The letter included the material that I had sent Mueller as well as a VHS tape, which I haven’t viewed yet. The text of Chief Peeples' letter follows:

Dear Mr. Keegan:

This letter is in response to the correspondence that you addressed to the FBI.

The allegations that you have brought to our attention do not warrant any action by the FBI. You may wish to pursue these issues with the assistance of an attorney.

My charges most certainly warrant some agency’s action as a form of check and balances and oversight, which the FBI refuses to provide for a variety of reasons, primarily because they make the state clowns look like altar boys. If an unaccountable, arrogant, and abusive criminal government agency can do this to me, then they can do it to you. More importantly they can do it to anyone, including your Congressman.

FBI Apples and Oranges III

I returned home this afternoon just as an FBI employee was leaving a message on the answering machine. This was the same employee who had left an earlier message. In this message, she referenced the FBI's March 25, 2008 no records response and said that they had sent my request to FBI DC HQ and Jacksonville. I picked up the phone as she said that as far as she can tell that I made only one request for information on myself. I asked her what was the date of my request. She replied that it was dated January 5, 2008. I thanked her and asked if I could call her if I had any more questions. She said that it was okay. Apparantly all calls go through their central switchboard because she wasn't calling from the number that she had left previously.

I've pasted in below what I requested in my Jan. 5, 2008 FOIPA Request to Record Information/Dissemination Section (RIDS),Washington, DC. I filed separate and distinct requests with the FBI Jacksonville Field Office as required by FBI FOIA policies.

1) Any and all records of my communications and correspondence, including any VHS videotape, to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III, regarding my letter, dated December 11, 2007, in which I charged violations of my civil rights and official police misconduct by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Holmes County Sheriff’s Department, and the West Florida Electric Cooperative Association. In my letter to FBI Director Mueller, I also requested an investigation and a report of the investigation;
2) I am requesting a copy of any FBI documents, notes, memos, and records attached or associated with my correspondence and/or case file, including logs, daily activity/time sheets, memos, intake forms, notes, quality control records, and processing records;
3) I am requesting a copy of any records, notes, and memos of any FBI DC Headquarters telephone calls or other communications to any other office or agency regarding my charges and request for an investigation; and,
4) Copy of FBI Agent’s case file regarding my charges of illegal electronic surveillance by the FDLE, Holmes County Sheriff’s Department, and/or any other agency, and the Agent’s Report of Investigation. If my case was not assigned for review or investigation, I am requesting any records, notes, and memos as to why my complaint was not assigned for investigation or if review is still pending.

FBI Apples and Oranges II

I returned the FBI's call yesterday morning. Someone who had identified herself as with the FBI had left a message on Thursday, April 17, 2008, to call her if I had any questions regarding a "no-records" response to an FBI FOIPA Request. I decided to hold any questions, until I received the letter that she promised to remail. I received it, and had one question: what FOIPA Request was this "no response letter" in reference to? I haven't been able to get a staight answer, so I called the phone number that she left. The number belonged to the person who she identified herself as, but the recorded voice wasn't the same- or it least it didn't sound the same- as the one that left a message. This voice sounded much older and different from that of the earlier caller's voice. At any rate, I called and left a message with my name and number and requested that she tell me what FOIPA Request this "no records letter" addresses. I still haven't received a reply to this simple question.

Closed Appeal Files

I faxed an FOIPA Request this morning to the DOJ'S Office of Information and Privacy requesting copies of my closed appeal files that Deputy Chief Anne D. Work referred to in her letter, dated April 17, 2008. I included a copy of the Deputy Chief's letter to help them in their search.

Moot

I received the FBI no-record letter, dated March 25, 2008, today. Coincidentally, I also received today a letter, dated April 17, 2008, from Deputy Chief Administrative Appeals Staff Anne D. Work of the US DOJ Office of Information and Privacy in response to two earlier FOI Appeals. I've copied the text of the Deputy Chief's response below.

Re: Appeal Nos. 08-1501 & 08-1502
Request Nos. 1091663 & 1095794
ADW:CIH

Dear Mr. Keegan:

This responds to your letters dated February 11 and March 8, 2008, in which you attempted to appeal from the failure of the Headquarters Office and Jacksonville Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to respond to your requests for access to records pertaining to your correspondence with Director Robert S. Mueller III and "Jacksonville FBI documents."

The FBI responded to your requests by letters dated September 21, 2007, and November 7, 2007 (copies enclosed). Because the FBI responded to your requests, your appeals from the FBI's failure to respond are moot. Accordingly, I am closing your appeal files in this Office.

Sincerly,
Anne D. Work
Deputy Chief
Administrative Appeals Staff

Enclosures

FBI Apples and Oranges

I left a message yesterday morning on the FBI FOIPA Public Liaison (PLO) Officer answering machine inquiring as to the status of my Jan. 5, 2008 FOIPA Request and my Feb. 16, 2008 FOI Appeal. DC FBI HQ still hasn’t replied to this FOIPA Request or FOI Appeal. I called the FBI PLO after the FBI FOIPA Public Information Officer (PIO) failed to reply to earlier messages regarding this request. When I returned home yesterday afternoon, the FBI had left a message on the answering machine. The FBI employee said that she’s looking at my request right now- but didn't give the date of my request- and that the FBI sent a 'no records'response on March 25, 2008. She said that the FBI searched their Jacksonville FBI Field Office and they didn’t find anything. My FOIPA Request sought DC records. She identified my street address and said that if it’s incorrect to call her. She said that she’s not even a supervisor or the person that handles it, but she’s going to return my call anyway. She said that she's remailing the no records letter now. My request was for FBI DC HQ records and not Jacksonville. Two separate requests which are easy enough to distinguish as apples and oranges.

In my Jan. 5, 2008 FOIAP Request, which is the issue, I requested a copy of my Dec. 11, 2007 letter to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III, charging violations of my civil rights and official police misconduct by the FDLE, Holmes County Sheriff’s Department, and the West Florida Electric Cooperative Association. I included a VHS videotape, which proves my charges, and some other evidence. I also requested all the associated records, such as the case file, logs, activity/time sheets, processing records, etc. I filed two separate requests for records with the FBI. One was for the records associated with my complaint to the Jacksonville FBI Special Agent in Charge and the later was with FBI Director Mueller.

Although the USPS verified delivery of all my letters to the FBI Jacksonville Field Office and FBI employees signed for my letters, the FBI Jacksonville Field Office denied receiving anything. The Jacksonville FBI Field Office FOIA Manager told me that he doesn’t understand what’s going on, knows nothing, and that FBI HQ will handle it.

I filed two separate complaints charging 4th Amendment violations and two separate and distinct FOIPA Requests with the FBI. One with FBI DC HQ and one with the FBI Jacksonville Field Office. Apples and Oranges. The USPS verified delivery of all my letters, as well as the FBI employees that signed for them. Both complaints and requests are different. For example, I didn’t include the VHS videotape in my complaint to the FBI Jacksonville Field Office. However, I did provide FBI Director Mueller with a copy, along with some other stuff.

FBI FOIPA Public Information Officer

I left another message on the FOIPA Public Information Officer's answering machine this morning regarding the status of my Jan. 5, 2008 FOIPA Request, which the USPS delivered on January 8, 2008. The FBI still hasn't acknowledged it.

DOJ Office of Inspector General

I faxed a FOIA/PA Request to the DOJ's Office of Inspector General this morning requesting the following:

1) Any and all records of my communications and correspondence to the United States Department of Justice Office of Inspector General charging DOJ employees with violating my civil rights and civil liberties and/or misconduct;
2) I am requesting a copy of any DOJ documents, notes, memos, and records attached or associated with my DOJ OIG complaints and/or case file, including logs, daily activity/time sheets, memos, intake forms, notes, quality control records, and processing records;
3) I am requesting a copy of any records, notes, and memos of any DOJ OIG telephone calls or other communications to any other office or agency regarding my charges and request for an investigation;
4) Copy of any DOJ OIG case file(s) regarding violations of my civil rights and civil liberties by DOJ employees and/or DOJ employee misconduct. If the DOJ OIG did not assign my complaints for investigation, I am requesting any records, notes, and memos as to why my complaint was not assigned for investigation or if review is still pending; and,
5) Copy of DOJ OIG manual and/or policy regarding review and assignment of complaints charging DOJ employees with violations of civil rights and civil liberties and/or misconduct.

FBI Director Mueller FOIPA Request

I left another message early this morning on the FBI FOIPA Public Information Officer's answering machine inquiring as to the status of my Jan. 5, 2008 FOIPA Request(USPS EB390615975US)seeking copies of all records related to my complaint and evidence, including a VHS videotape, that I sent to FBI Director Mueller on Dec. 12, 2007 and the Request Number that RIDS Section Chief Hardy assigned it.

FBI Patriot Act Abuse

I left a message early this morning on the FBI FOIPA Public Information Officer's answering machine to either tell me the date of my FOIPA request that Section Chief Hardy assigned Request No. 1111513-000 or fax me the first page of my request. Interestingly enough I received another letter- this one dated March 19, 2008- in this afternoon's mail from Section Chief Hardy acknowledging receipt of my Nov. 20, 2007 FOIPA request to the Jacksonville Field Office. The request was assigned to FBIHQ for handling and assigned Request No. 1111513, so it's the one that Hardy's March 25, 2008 reply letter said there's no record of me or my complaint to the FBI Jacksonville Field Office.

The difference between Hardy's March 19 and March 25 letters is telling. The March 19, 2008 letter is in 12 point type and double-spaced between lines and apparently signed with Hardy's rubber-stamp. The March 25, 2008 letter is in 10 point type and single-spaced between lines. Beneath Hardy's rubber stamped signature there's the initials 'EM.' The similarities are also telling- both sent from the same zip code 22602 and both postmarked March 25, 2008.

I sent my original complaint and evidence as well as my FOIPA request requesting same to the FBI Jacksonville Field Office EXPRESS MAIL and although the FBI signed for both envelopes they don't have any record of my complaint and denied receiving my original FOIPA request. Anyone get the feeling that FIB is covering up for Florida law enforcement? Hmmmm, I wonder what agency those two twenty somethings dressed in camo that a sedan with Leon County- Tallahassee- plates has been dropping off late at night along these country roads belong to?

At any rate Request No. 1111513-000 seems to be- at least for the moment- my Nov. 20, 2007 FOIPA request to the Jacksonville FBI Field Office, which means that the FBI hasn't assigned a Request Number to my FOIPA requesting copies of my complaint and evidence that I sent to FBI Director Mueller.

Joe

FBI Patriot Act Abuse

I received a letter, dated March 25, 2008, from David M. Hardy, FBI Section Chief, RIDS Record Management Division, yesterday, in response to a FOI/PA Request that I had filed. Coincidentally, I expected a reply to my Feb. 16, 2008 FOI Appeal regarding the FBI’s failure to respond to my Jan. 5, 2008 FOI/PA Request in which I requested a copy of all my correspondence, including a VHS tape, that I sent to FBI Director Mueller. Since Mr. Hardy neither referenced the date of this FOIA Request nor supplied a copy of it, I can only conclude that it’s my Jan. 5, 2008 FOIA requesting a copy of my complaint to Dir. Mueller charging FL LEO’s with illegal electronic surveillance and harassment. Hardy, however, did supply a Request No.: 1111513-000 to this otherwise unidentified request. In his letter, he wrote; "To promptly respond to requests, we concentrate on identifying main files in the central records system at FBI Head- quarters as well as the FBI Jacksonville Field Office. No records responsive to your FOIPA request were located by a search of the automated, Electronic Surveillance, and manual indices." He then notified me that I could file an administrative appeal. Besides not identifying my request by date or supplying a copy, Mr. Hardy improperly incorporated my Jacksonville FOIPA Request into his reply even though I didn’t mention Jacksonville in my Jan. 5, 2008 letter requesting copies of what I sent to Director Mueller.

Mr. Hardy’s incorporation of my Jacksonville FOI/PA Request in my request for FBI DC HQ records is suspicious, especially since I didn’t mention Jacksonville in my Jan. 5, 2008 request. I filed two earlier FOIPA Requests: one with FBI HQ (Request No.: 1091663-000) and one with the Jacksonville FBI Field Office (Request No.: 1095794-000). In response to both these requests Section Chief Hardy wrote the same stock reply quoted above except this time he included the FBI Jacksonville Field Office reference even though I didn’t mention Jacksonville in my request. When I appealed his two earlier request responses, I was told in effect to bring the FBI to court to obtain these records although they didn’t cite any FOIA exemptions to reject my appeals. Consequently, I filed two additional requests, specifically identifying the requested records. The Jacksonville FBI Office lied that they didn’t received the request addressed to them, even though they signed for the USPS EXPRESS MAIL envelope and an Agent confirmed that it was in their system.

This is a repeat of my experiences with FL State Attorney Meadows where he refused at first to even acknowledge a public records request and then refused to answer a simple question whether or not he viewed a VHS tape that I submitted as evidence. The FBI is covering up for Florida law enforcement and by doing so violate the Patriot Act.

FBI Employees Violation of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

There's a provision in the Patriot Act which allows you to file a complaint with the DOJ IG against DOJ employees if they violated your civil rights and civil liberties. I pasted in the text of my complaint below. I filed a similar complaint with the DOJ IG charging misconduct.



March 17, 2008

Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Complaints
Office of the Inspector General
Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530
Fax : 202-XXX-XXXX

Dear Inspector General,

I am charging the Jacksonville FBI Special Agent In Charge, XXX XXXX, the Jacksonville FBI Civil Rights Supervisor, the Jacksonville FBI FOIA manager, and other unknown FBI employees in both the Jacksonville, FL, Field Office, and in FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., with violating my civil rights and civil liberties. These DOJ employees violated my civil rights and civil liberties by not only delaying, imped-ing, covering up and concealing any investigation of my charges of illegal electronic surveillance by Florida Law Enforcement Officers and the West Florida Electric Co-operative Association, but also evidence related to my charges. My charges require an official investigation.

After exhausting all efforts to get Florida law enforcement officials and public officials to investigate my charges of illegal electronic surveillance, harassment, threatening witnesses, and obstruction of justice, I telephoned the Jacksonville Field Office on Friday, June 1, 2007 to request an investigation. The secretary connected me to an agent. I identified myself and briefly explained the situation to Chris(he refused to state his last name for security reasons). I explained that three electronic surveillance experts had verified the presence of illegal law enforcement electronic surveillance devices on the utility pole servicing the house and grounds, but refused to supply their respective reports. Two were threatened and the third had a conflict of interest, which he didn’t disclose. Chris asked if the pole was on the street. I made it clear that the pole was on private property. Chris said to summarize it in a page or two, attach some letters, and mail it to the attention of the Civil Rights Supervisor. The USPS verified that the FBI Jacksonville office received my EXPRESS MAIL (EB 401574474 US) letter, dated June 4, 2007, addressed to the FBI Civil Rights Supervisor on June 5, 2007. A XXX XXXX signed for it.

On June 14, 2007, I mailed a supplemental evidence envelope (PRIORITY MAIL # 0307 0020 0004 6108 7729) to the Jacksonville FBI Field Office Civil Rights Supervisor. I included a letter from the West Florida Electric Cooperative Association’s VP & CEO William Rimes in which he wrote that he takes my charges of illegal electronic surveil-lance seriously, no WFEC employees are involved, and he forwarded my letter to the local Sheriff. Holmes County Sheriff Dennis Lee, however, never contacted me regarding Mr. Rimes’ referral. My envelope arrived in Jacksonville, FL, on June 16, 2007, the USPS attempted to deliver it, and left a notice left. The FBI never picked it up and the USPS never returned it to me as undeliverable.

On June 20, 2007 mailed a duplicate supplemental evidence envelope (EXPRESS MAIL Label Number: EB032491235US) to the Jacksonville FBI Field Office Civil Rights Supervisor. The USPS verified that the Jacksonville FBI Field Office received it on
Neither the Jacksonville FBI Special Agent In Charge nor the Jacksonville FBI Civil Rights Supervisor responded to my July 2007 inquiries regarding the status of my June 4, 2007 complaint. Consequently, on August 23, 2007, I filed two FOIA/PA Requests with the FBI for records related to my complaint. I filed one with the Special Agent in Charge at the Jacksonville office (PRIORITY MAIL # 0306 1070 0004 8123 0740) and the other with David M. Hardy, Chief, RIDS, in DC (EXPRESS MAIL EB 390615184). The USPS verified delivery of both. FBI HQ acknowledged theirs and assigned Request No.: 1091663-000 to it. In his Sept. 21, 2007 letter, David M. Hardy, Section Chief, RIDS Records Management Division wrote: "No records responsive to your FOIPA request were located by a search of the automated and manual indices. If you desire a search of the Field Office files, you must contact the appropriate Field Office." As indicated, I already had filed a request with the Jacksonville FBI Field Office. However, the Jacksonville FBI office still hadn't even acknowledged my FOIA.

On October 3, 2007, I phoned the Jacksonville FBI Special Agent in Charge to inquire about the status of my August 23, 2007 FOIA/PA Requests (PRIORITY MAIL # 0306 1070 0004 8123 0740). His secretary referred me to the person who handled FOIAs. Mr. XXX XXXX said that he would look for it and forward it FBI HQ in DC, which in turn would then either call or email him authority to provide the records. On Oct. 5, 2007 the Jacksonville FBI FOIA manager XXX XXXX(phone number XXX-XXX-XXXX) left a message that my letter was delayed and forwarded it via Express Mail on Oct. 4, 2007 to FBI HQ, and that HQ would reply to me directly.

When FBI HQ didn’t reply to my Jacksonville FOIA/PA Request within an additional 20 working days (up and above the time my FOIPA already sat in Jacksonville, FL), I filed an appeal on 10-24-07 with the DOJ. I treated the FBI’s failure to reply within the deadlines as a denial of my request and appealed.

On November 19, 2007, I received a reply from XXX XXXX, Section Chief, FBI HQ, to my Jacksonville FOIPA (Request No.:1095794-000), who wrote in November 7, 2007 letter: "To promptly respond to requests, we concentrate on identifying main files in the central records system at the Jacksonville Field Office. No records responsive to your FOIPA request were located by a search of the automated and manual indices." If you remember, Mr. Hardy previously advised me to file a separate one with the Jacksonville FBI Field Office. However, when Jacksonville FBI forwarded my request to him, he gave me the same reply as before: "No records responsive to your FOIPA request were located by a search of the automated and manual indices." The Jacksonville FBI never entered my complaint into the system.

I filed a November 20, 2007 FOIPA Request (USPS# EB 390622106 US) in which I requested any and all records regarding my communications and correspondence to the FBI Jacksonville Field Office. The USPS verified delivery of my second FOIPA Request to the Jacksonville FBI. USPS delivery record show that my November 20, 2007 FOIPA Request was delivered on November 21, 2007 at 11:37 AM in Jacksonville, FL. The scanned image of the recipient information revealed that a XXX XXXX signed for it.

On December 12, 2007, I mailed a letter (Receipt Number:EB39 0615 975US) to FBI Director Mueller charging the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), Holmes County Sheriff’s Department, and the West Florida Electric Cooperative (WFEC) Association with on-going violations of my civil rights, including illegal electronic surveillance and harassment, requested an investigation, and a copy of the FBI’s report of investigation. I enclosed a VHS videotape, which was evidence of electronic surveillance according to some electronic surveillance experts. Although not a TSCMP expert, a sibling, who is a PhD, PE, said that an advanced technology caused the sound recorded in the VHS tape. The USPS verified delivery of my letter and evidence (Receipt Number: EB39 0615 975U S). USPS Track & Confirm verified delivery:"Your item was delivered at 3:07 AM on December 14, 2007 in WASHINGTON, DC 20535 to FBI 20535 PU .The item was signed for by XXX XXXX."

On the morning of December 28, 2007, I telephoned the Jacksonville FBI Field Office regarding the status of my November 20, 2007 FOIPA Request (USPS# EB 390622106 US) to the FBI Jacksonville Field Office. I spoke to the Duty Agent, who refused to identify himself for security reasons. He said that he would check and get back to me. Later that afternoon this same Duty Agent left a message on the answering machine that he found my request in the system, but the guy who processes them put it somewhere and he can not find it.

On January 5, 2008, I mailed a Request for Personal Records under the FOIA/PA to the Record Information/Dissemination Section (RIDS). In my letter (USPS PRIORITY MAIL #: 03070020000461091009), I requested any and all records of my communications and correspondence to FBI Director Mueller regarding my letter, dated December 11, 2007, charging the FDLE, Holmes County Sheriff’s Department, and WFEC Association with violations of my civil rights. The USPS verified delivery of my letter in Washington, DC, on January 8, 2008.

In her January 30, 2008 letter , XXX XXXX, Supervisory Administrative Specialist, U.S. DOJ, Office of Information and Privacy, wrote:

"This responds to your letter dated January 5, 2008, in which you attempted to appeal from the failure of the Jacksonville Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to respond to your request for access to records pertaining to your communications with the Jacksonville Field Office charging the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Holmes County Sheriff’s Department with illegal electronic surveillance and harassment.
A member of my staff has been advised by the FBI that it has no record of receiving this request from you. Accordingly, by copy of this letter, we are referring your letter to the FBI for processing and direct response to you. You may appeal any future adverse determination mad by the FBI. "

On March 8, 2008, I mailed my FOI Appeal (PRIORITY MAIL #: 0307179000016068 3078) to the Director, Office of Information and Privacy, U.S. DOJ, Washington, D.C. I treated the Jacksonville FBI Field Office’s failure to meet my November 20, 2007 FOIPA Request (USPS# EB 390622106 US) deadlines as a denial of my request and appealed. The USPS verified delivery of my FOI Appeal on March 10, 2008.

By delaying, impeding, covering up and concealing not only my charges but also evidence related to my charges of illegal electronic surveillance by Florida Law Enforcement Officers and the West Florida Electric Cooperative Association the above referenced DOJ employees violated my civil rights and civil liberties. Moreover, the FBI told the Office of Information and Privacy that they had no record of receiving my November 20, 2007 FOIPA Request even though the USPS verified its delivery and the December 28, 2007 Jacksonville FBI Duty Agent confirmed that it was in the system.


Sincerely,

Joseph Michael Keegan

FBI Director Robert Mueller

The USPS verified delivery of my letter (Receipt Number: EB 390615975US) addressed to FBI Director Robert Mueller. According to the USPS's Track & Confirm, "Your item was delivered at 3:07 AM on December 14, 2007 in WASHINGTON, DC 20535 to FBI 20535 PU . The item was signed for by M SIMON." I pasted in the text of my letter below.

December 11, 2007

Director – Robert S. Mueller, III
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535-0001


Director Mueller,

I’m notifying you in your official capacity as the Director of the FBI of continuing and on-going violations of my civil rights and official police misconduct, including illegal electronic surveillance and harassment, by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), Holmes County (HC) Sheriff’s Department, and the West Florida Electric Cooperative (WFEC) Association. I am requesting that the FBI investigate my charges and supply me with a report of the investigation. The enclosed VHS videotape, which I discuss below, is more than enough evidence to warrant a FBI investigation of my charges.

State and county law enforcement officers illegally arranged with WFEC employees for the illegal electronic surveillance devices’ installation on the two utility poles servicing the house and grounds. Both utility poles are located on private property and are not on the public roadway. The audio/video surveillance devices are capable of “bugging” between 20-40 square acres, have serial ID #’s, and are inventoried. Florida Law Enforcement Officers also arranged for the illegal installation of a remotely activated tracking device in one vehicle and supplied neighbors with a remote control to activate the device whenever they saw me leave.

Three electronic surveillance experts all verified illegal FL law enforcement "bugs" on the two utility poles servicing the house and grounds, but refused to supply their reports. The first one, Diop Kamau, said that law enforcement would arrest me if he supplied the report. Both Mr. Kamau and his employee, Doug Jones, subsequently denied saying this, but still didn’t supply their report. Mr. Kamau obtained his Florida Private Investigator’s license after failing to provide his signed report. The second one, Jim Toth, confirmed that law enforcement installed a tracking device in one vehicle and identified Audio Surveillance Devices (AIDs) as the supplier of the surveillance devices on the utility poles, but said that he would lose his FL PI license if he supplied his report. Mr. Toth agreed to be videotaped while he conducted his Technical Surveillance Counter Measure (TSCM) “sweep,” and I videotaped him refusing to check the utility pole in the backyard for any surveillance devices. Mr. Toth said that only law enforcement would install a device on the utility poles because there are too many easier places to put them. Mr. Toth said that the police had installed a GPS remotely activated tracking device in the mini-van. He also said that the authorities have a warrant and will have to tell me about it within 30 days. I observed Mr. Toth scramble the video image he obtained on his OSCOR’s screen and then remark that there’s a video camera nearby, but he couldn’t get an image. The third expert, Jim Ross, had a conflict of interest, which he didn’t disclose. Mr. Ross is a close personal friend of Mr. G. Gordon Liddy. Mr. Liddy is the founder of the Liddy Foundation, which assumed the mission of the National Intelligence Academy (NIA) after Hurricane Andrew destroyed AID’s facility in Homestead, FL (AIDs was sold sometime ago and NIA spun off). Ross also said in reference to Florida law enforcement, “They want to be in charge.”

Former FL Gov. Bush suggested that I bring any evidence of my charges to my state attorney. I sent State Attorney Steve Meadows a VHS videotape (copy enclosed) in which recorded audio phenomenon that two TSCM experts said was indicative of electronic surveillance was pronounced. The amplification and reverberation of the dog’s barking and the sounds of a low flying helicopter recorded in the VHS tape copy indicative of electronic surveillance. Additional examples of this phenomenon are demonstrated in the enclosed VHS tape. Although not a TSCM expert, a sibling who is a Ph.D., PE indicated that the sound appears caused by some type of advanced technology. I also sent State Attorney Steve Meadows a copy of an email, dated Dec. 3, 2004 (attached) from my neighbor, which tends to verify my version of events. Since all state law enforcement and related agencies refused to investigate, I sent a copy of the VHS tape and my charges to US Rep. Jeff Miller and requested his help. US Rep Miller found the VHS tape to be compelling evidence of my charges. In his November 14, 2005 letter (see attached), he encouraged me to contact my State Representative, Donald Brown, for help. I contacted Rep. Brown, but I never received any reply until late in the afternoon of November 30, 2005 (see attached). Earlier that morning retired FDLE Agent Betty Romminger visited the Holmes’ County library to research some articles regarding a bungled FDLE drug bust. This drug bust and subsequent arrests are in part responsible for the FDLE’s refusal to investigate my charges. The judge declared a mistrial in that case because the State Attorney and FDLE withheld evidence and testimony. I suspect that this withheld evidence and testimony would prove my charges.

The evidence that my state rep’s assistant, Mr. Drake, referred to in his email is the VHS videotape. I contacted the respective I.G.s. On June 20, 2006, I emailed IG Harper and courtesy-copied IG Al Dennis offering to meet with them together or separately. IG Dennis replied that he forwarded my inquiry to FDLE Executive Investigations for review. Former FDLE Executive Investigations Director Jamie McLaughlin previously dismissed my earlier complaints with the pretext: “There does not appear to be a criminal predicate which would warrant investigation by the Office of Executive Investigations.” The former Director lied and officially sanctioned a cover-up. Within two days of receipt of my complaint by then FL AG Charlie Crist’s office, a FDLE Executive Investigation was initiated and Director McLaughlin resigned purportedly over charges regarding what could be considered a form of sexual harassment. According to the FDLE Executive Investigation’s report, the victim was a subordinate with whom the Director had an affair with for a number of years.

By letter, dated June 26, 2006, I notified Governor Bush that I had contacted both IG’s per my State Rep’s suggestion and shared my concerns regarding FDLE Executive Investigations’ good faith in investigating my charges. Ms. Kim Likens from the Governor's OIG phoned and left a message Monday (July 3, 2006) morning to call her. I returned her call later that afternoon and left a message. Ms. Likens called back and told me that her boss, Dawn Case, wanted her to call me and tell me that she had forwarded my letter to the Governor to FDLE IG Al Dennis earlier in the day (see attached). Likens said that this matter belongs with the FDLE. Later that same afternoon (July 3, 2006), FDLE Criminal Investigator (Inspector) Keith Wilmer called me. Director of Investigations Case’s early morning referral to the FDLE IG apparently prompted Inspector Wilmer’s call later that afternoon.

Inspector Wilmer denied that he saw earlier letters regarding this matter. However, Inspector Wilmer repeatedly quoted my earlier correspondence verbatim. When Inspector Wilmer’s questioning became silly, I asked him directly: Are there FL law enforcement bugs on the utility poles? Inspector Wilmer said that he did not know. Criminal Investigator Wilmer then told me to have WFEC check their poles and transformers quoting the exact text that I used in my initial letter to WFEC VP & CEO William Rimes requesting a search. Wilmer also instructed me to have a FL licensed mechanic search for the transponder in the mini-van. Later he refused to say whether or not he viewed a copy of the VHS videotape.

On September 5, 2006, I received an email from the FL OAG replying to my inquiry if I should file a Public Records Request with the OAG or the SAO for records in possession of the SAO. I sent an earlier Public Records Request to SA Steve Meadows’ office for a copy of all records in his files regarding this matter, but I never received any reply. The USPS verified that the SAO received my request, which suggests that SA Meadows ignored it. The OAG’s email instructed that I should submit such a request to the state attorney’s office, indicating that I had filed my earlier request with the correct office. On Sept. 8, 2006 a clerk in the SAO emailed that Mr. Lewis, Chief Assistant State Attorney (Florida’s 14th Judicial District) asked her to respond to my previously ignored Public Records Request. She said that she never received a request and that I should send another, which I did. I later received a letter, dated October 2, 2006, from Mr. Lewis in which he questioned my credibility and refused to answer my question whether or not he, his boss, or newly hired SAO Investigator Guy Tunnel viewed the VHS tape. Governor Bush had sent a copy of one of my complaints to former FDLE Guy Tunnel, who never replied. I later received a letter, dated 12-6-06 from Chief Assistant State Attorney William A. Lewis (see attached), which stated that there was no basis to my charges. A subsequent FL Public Records Request to the SAO for Assistant State Attorney Lewis’ “inquiries” file produced little and omitted a lot. In addition, I filed numerous Public Records Requests with both the FDLE and Sheriff’s Dept., which didn’t reveal any records of any official investigations. “Off the books” investigations and “informal inquiries” are employed to smear and discredit someone’s charges of official misconduct while serving to threaten and intimidate witnesses. As a matter of fact, the FDLE even went to a family member’s place of employment during one of these endless “investigations” on a pretext that she was a “pot head,” but did not speak to her. Her superiors, when they could stop laughing, told her what the cops said. There was no reason for this cowardly inexcusable abuse of authority by so-called law enforcement officers other than an attempt to smear and defame in order to cover-up their criminal conduct and abuse of authority.

State Attorney Steve Meadows is obstructing justice by covering up FL law enforcement officers’ criminal misconduct and abuse of authority. This is at least the second set of such electronic surveillance devices installed by WFEC under the direction of Florida law enforcement and other state officials. WFEC removed the first set under the protection of FDLE officials. In reply to my initial request for help identifying any authorized or unauthorized listening devices connected to any of their equipment servicing my residence, WFEC VP and CEO William S. Rimes wrote that he took my charges seriously and forwarded my letter to HC Sheriff Dennis Lee for action. The Sheriff’s first contact was about two weeks later when an FDLE helicopter hovered over the house late one evening for more than ½ hr purportedly searching for a neighbor who the FDLE attempted to arrest that evening. Sheriff Dennis Lee was in that FDLE helicopter piloted by his first cousin. In addition to a powerful searchlight, a large infrared device mounted under the helicopter assisted in their late night “search.” Earlier in the day, an FDLE Agent disguised as a Federal Express driver delivered a 3.5 lb. package of meth to my neighbor’s wife. My neighbor arrived home as the bust was in progress, grabbed the package that his wife signed for, and escaped with the evidence. He outran a lot of FDLE agents in his escape. The FDLE returned later that evening on the pretext of apprehending him at his home. However, the entire event was staged in an attempt to provoke a violent incident with me and remove their illegal “bugs” in the aftermath. When I didn’t react as my “profilers” anticipated, the Sheriff ordered the agents to storm the grounds in hot pursuit of an imaginary fugitive in an attempt to provoke another incident. The FDLE arrested my neighbor’s wife on drug and theft charges and later arrested my neighbor on the same charges when he turned himself into authorities.

Sometime later when I stopped an attempt by a WFEC utility crew to open the locked front gate to gain access in order to surreptitiously remove the bugs, the crew foreman summoned the Sheriff. A young deputy who had not been certified yet as a FL LEO arrived to assure access for the crew. The foreman fortunately agreed to reschedule the inspection, which was subsequently canceled. Sometime after this incident, I talked to this same foreman and his superior, Russell Dunaway, at the front gate. They both consented to be videotaped. They said that they were upgrading service and would have to replace the two transformers (containing the illegal “bugs”) on the property within a month or else disconnect power. I asked Mr. Dunaway if he knew anything about any illegal electronic surveillance devices on their poles. He said that he had no knowledge and that they’re not in the electronic surveillance equipment business. My questioning irritated Mr. Dunaway as he turned beet red (visible in the video). He then added that I put the device on the pole myself.

Two months later, a large contingent of WFEC employees arrived to “upgrade” services by replacing the two transformers, containing the illegal surveillance devices, with new ones. The foreman agreed for the operation to be videotape. WFEC CEO & VP William Rimes oversaw the work from the road. Rimes became visibly upset when I recognized him and videotaped him. Although they again agreed to conduct a search for illegal devices, once in they refused to search as agreed or even open the lightening arresters and fuses on the transformers. Moreover, they insisted that the lightening arrester was solid and could not be opened, which was a lie. The crew foreman threatened to call the Sheriff and have me arrested if I searched their equipment myself. I asked this foreman if he intended to reuse this transformer with the implication for surveillance purposes, and he replied that he had just the place for it. They replaced the existing transformers with new ones and left.

In his August 14, 2007 letter (copy enclosed), the Honorable Jeff Miller wrote: “I am confident that if the agency finds merit in your allegations or have further questions, they will be in touch with you. Do understand that as a matter under the Privacy Act, the agencies may not be able to report back to your or even confirm any action taken.” I don’t understand Representative Miller’s comments. I wrote the Jacksonville FBI Field Office in June charging the FDLE and HC Sheriff’s Department with illegal electronic surveillance and harassment, but still haven’t received even an acknowledgment. As FBI Director, please explain what the Honorable is talking about, because it doesn’t make any sense to any rational person. The Fourth Amendment is either still the law or it isn’t. Whose privacy is being protected? I filed a straightforward complaint, so why haven’t I been able to get a straight answer? Are my charges legitimate or aren’t they?

FL law enforcement and the 14th District SAO have an inherent conflict of interest in investigating my charges. FDLE Executive Investigations, the department that is entrusted with insuring the integrity of FL LEO’s, is in fact covering up just as the SAO. Consequently, I’m requesting that the FBI help to end this egregious violation of my civil rights as well as others by FL law enforcement officers, who apparently believe that the 4th Amendment doesn’t apply to them. I’ll provide additional video and audiotapes, documents, and witnesses to prove my charges. Please advise by December 31, 2007 as to whether or not you intend to investigate my charges. Thank you.


Respectfully submitted,
Joe Keegan

W.I.P. Removal

Around 8:50 a.m. this morning, a large WFEC bucket truck pulled up to the utility pole out front that they had mounted a second thinner transformer on Oct. 30, 2007. The driver and his helper lingered, which is unusal because WFEC employee do move it. At 9:00 a.m. a second WFEC utility arrived and pulled up to the utility pole. It looked like a truck crane with the hook at the end of the boom. I was surprised to see it also had outriggers, which stabilize cranes. As the second truck lowered its outriggers, the first truck raised its bucket to the transformers and the technician began disconnecting the wires connecting the two transformers to each other. I thought that they intended to replace the smaller thinner transformer with a larger one, but that wasn't the case. The second truck raised it boom with bucket and hook, but there was no new transformer. Instead they hooked onto the thin secondary transformer that they had installed on Oct. 30, 2007, and lowered it to the ground. There was no replacement. The driver and helper from the first bucket truck finished up and left first. The second crane/bucket truck left shortly after the employees raised and secured the outriggers and transformers. Usually just one truck performs this operation, but I guess that they either had an extra truck or were on a tight schedule. Both trucks had left by 9:15 a.m. As I said, WFEC employees are efficient. Fortunately my neighbors dogs weren't around to get in the way. Finally, I can't help but wonder why they put that additional transformer up in the first place only to remove it in December?

Chemtrails

Yesterday morning about 8:00 a.m. I was admiring how clear and blue the sky was (I'm also into sunrises and sunsets) when I noticed a contrail forming to the south. I couldn't see or hear the aircraft, but just see the contrail form slowly from east to the west. I didn't think much of it, until a little after 9:00 a.m., when I observed that there were now 4 or 5 contrails and they were not evaporating. I wondered if these were the "chemtrails" that I had read about on the internet and heard discussed on Art Bell? I wondered if "they" had done this before, but I missed it because I couldn't hear or see the planes because of the altitude? My critics say that I don't miss anything, but I've never seen this phenomenon before here in Holmes County. I thought to myself, "Why Holmes County? It's not cost effective. Not enough people (about 20k and rural), cattle, or agriculture to be cost effective. Could it be some test on the population? During the rest of the morning I watched the clear blue sky crossed by parallel contrails from east to west that weren't dispersing, but lingering and merging into a white covering which obscured the blue and otherwise cloudless sky. The sun, however, was still shinning brightly through the white covering. These were chemtrails! I also observed that additional ones were intersecting the earlier ones from south to north creating a grid pattern, but not much of one. There was no need. The earlier east to west ones had spread sufficiently to fill the sky in all directions but about 2 miles to the north where they ended just pass Route 160. Just two or three planes silently created the entire chemtrail grid, which completely covered the sky with a white overcast that turned gray, by noon (your tax dollars at work!).The white turned gray by 2:00 p.m., but the sun still shined through although somewhat strangely. I also pay attention to the quality of light.

This morning, Dec. 7, I observed more of a haze than a mist. I probably wouldn't have noticed it and dismissed it as morning fog if I hadn't witnessed yesterday's chemtrails. What surprised me, however, was that unlike the past 3 days there was no morning frost on the ground! I noticed the chilly air (more like frigid) when I drove up front to put out the trash. The air was "iced," but there was no frost for the first time in the last 4 or 5 days on the ground. It was as though the frost/ice was in the air instead of on the vegetation. I decided to water the newly planted sod around the pond. For the past few days, I had waited until things warmed up to turn on the water because the line would have been frozen, but no frost so no ice I thought. I was surprised that I could water the sod at 7:00 a.m., instead of the usual 10-11 am or so. Again, it was as though the "frost/ice" was in "the air." The ground was frostless.

My only question is: Why Holmes County? I'm certainly not important enough and just another scandal, there's not enough people, livestock, or agriculture to make the operation cost effective, so why Holmes County? At the risk of sounding conspiratorial, dare I ask: testing?

W.I.P.

While attending to some chores up front this morning, I noticed a WFEC bucket truck speed by heading south on Will Lee Road around 8:10 am. Just as the truck passed me, I heard it skid to a stop just out of view behind some trees. I don't know if they locked the brakes on not, but I heard a breaking skid on the dirt road. The truck then slowly moved up to the utility pole where they had installed the additional transformer yesterday. Earlier this morning I had checked their previous day's work on the pole and I noticed that they didn't run the drop line from the newly installed transformer to the trailor, but rather had connected a line from it to the original transformer. Apparently this new transformer, which they installed above the original on the same utility pole, is a step-up or booster transformer to accomodate the additional energy requirements of two residences. I'm surprised they hadn't installed it earlier. The truck, however, didn't stop, but instead made a U-Turn and sped north back in the direction that they had come.

Around 8:35 am, the same truck returned, but this time stopped at the pole. The driver and his assistant got out, the driver got in the bucket, and raised the bucket to the transformers. I saw him put on the heavy utility gloves and he also had a pole to disconnect the line, then make some quick adjustments, but I didn't see everything because of the angle and distance. I then watched as he drew back and appeared to "contemplate" the pole. After about 5 minutes, I got tired of watching and left. When I returned a short time later around 8:55 am, they had left. I hope that they finished whatever it was that they were doing. It certainly turned into a project. Well, at least, WFEC's CEO & VP wasn't supervising this time.